Alfred Gusenbauer

office

Chancellor of Austria

term start

11 January 2007

term end

2 December 2008

president

Heinz Fischer

1blankname

Vice-Chancellor

1namedata

Wilhelm Molterer

predecessor

Wolfgang Schüssel

successor

Werner Faymann

office1

Chair of the Social Democratic Party

term start1

28 April 2000

term end1

8 August 2008

predecessor1

Viktor Klima

successor1

Werner Faymann

office3

Member of the National Council

term start3

30 October 2006

term end3

15 January 2007

successor3

Gabriele Binder-Maier

constituency3

3C – Mostviertel

term start4

29 January 1993

term end4

29 October 2006

constituency4

3 – Lower Austria

office5

Member of the Federal Council

term start5

21 February 1991

term end5

28 January 1993

constituency5

3 – Lower Austria

birth date

February 8, 1960

birth place

Sankt Pölten, Austria

party

Social Democratic Party

alma mater

University of Vienna

Alfred Gusenbauer (born 8 February 1960) is an Austrian politician who until 2008 spent his entire professional life as an employee of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) or as a parliamentary representative. He headed the SPÖ from 2000 to 2008, and served as Chancellor of Austria from January 2007 to December 2008. Since then, he has pursued a career as a consultant and lecturer, and as a member of supervisory boards of Austrian companies.

Early life and education

Gusenbauer was born in Sankt Pölten in the state of Lower Austria on 8 February 1960. He was educated at a high school in Wieselburg and studied political science, philosophy and jurisprudence at the University of Vienna, where he obtained a doctorate in political science in 1987.[1] Gusenbauer was federal leader of the Socialist Youth Austria (SJÖ) from 1984 to 1990; vice-president of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) from 1985 to 1989 and vice-president of the Socialist International in 1989. He was then made a senior research fellow in the economic policy department of the Lower Austria section of the Chamber of Labour from 1990 to 1999.

In 1991, Gusenbauer was elected SPÖ chairman in

Post-politics career

Gusenbauer briefly returned to his old post in the Chamber of Labour but immediately took on paid and unpaid positions in the private and non-profit sectors.

In 2009, Faymann prevented Gusenbauer's candidacy for the office of High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy by agreeing to the nomination of Johannes Hahn from his centre-right junior coalition partner ÖVP as Austria's Member of the European Commission.[7][8]

Corporate boards

Gusenbauer was made a member of the supervisory board of Alpine Holding, an Austrian construction conglomerate, in July 2009[9] and resigned from this position effective 1 May 2010, when it was announced that Gusenbauer was to head the supervisory board of Strabag (Austria's leading construction company) on 18 June 2010. At the same time he was to become chairman of the board of trustees of the private foundation established by Strabag's chairman, Hans Peter Haselsteiner.[10]

In an article about Western leaders working for authoritarian regimes, Associated Press reported that Gusenbauer works as a consultant to Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev.[11] In September 2013, he became an advisor to Serbian deputy prime minister and leader of the Serbian Progressive Party Aleksandar Vučić.[12] In 2018, reports surfaced claiming that Gusenbauer had met with members of Congress in Washington as part of a 2013 lobbying campaign orchestrated by Paul Manafort on behalf of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.[13]

Other positions include:

Citigroup, member of the European Advisory Board
CUDOS Capital AG, chairman of the supervisory board[14]
Equitas Capital, member of the board and chairman of European Funds (since 2009)[15]
Gabriel Resources, member of the board of directors (Member of the Corporate Governance and Compensation Committee)[16]
Haselsteiner Familien-Privatstiftung, chairman
RHI AG, member of the supervisory board (since 2013)[17]

Non-profit organizations

From 2009 to 2011, Gusenbauer was the first Leitner Global Fellow at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs in New York.

Other positions include:

Austrian Society for China Studies (ÖGCF), president of the board of trustees[22]
Austrian-Spanish Chamber of Commerce, president
Bonner Akademie für Forschung und Lehre praktischer Politik (BAPP), member of the board of trustees[23]
Club de Madrid, Member[24]
Dr. Karl Renner Institute, president
Verein für Geschichte der ArbeiterInnenbewegung, member of the board of trustees[25]

Early life and education

Chancellor of Austria

Post-politics career

Corporate boards

Non-profit organizations

Controversy

Paradise Papers

Manafort indictment

Investigations of his Signa role

See also

External links

References

Early life and education

Chairman of the Social Democratic Party

Chancellor of Austria

Post-politics career

Corporate boards

Non-profit organizations

Controversy

Paradise Papers

Manafort indictment

Investigations of his Signa role

See also

External links

References